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You know them. You’ve seen them. And sometimes you’ve even been annoyed by them, those kids with their hands up the whole class, whether it’s in kindergarten, grade school, university or writing classes. They like to talk, to share ideas, sometimes to excess. And they often seem to have new ways of thinking or feeling […]

Every time I decide to up my ante in Sell-My-Book poker I seem to run into yet another learning curve. For those of us in our fifties at the dawning of the new millennium, negotiating those treacherous roads to new and better exposure for our books and brand can be exhausting, if not downright impossible. […]

The Exciting New Thing: This past week I stepped up my author tech game. No, I didn’t make my books into video games or think of a way to have my Loyalists using computers, interesting as those might be. Instead, I sought out an invitation to take part in a Google Hangout hosted by Arianna […]

Sometimes my inner self just cringes at things I have to do. I try to think of all manner of excuses but in the end I must follow through for one reason or another. It’s a little like those days in school when my grade five teacher whom I adored would get me to erase the blackboards […]

We authors always wonder about reading our work to our audiences. Should we do it? How important is our rendering of our words? Or even–will our listeners fall asleep? I’ve been to a lot of readings now and thought maybe some guidelines might help improve our performances, for performances they are. We get the chance […]

In my former life I taught high school French and English but one year my timetable included Introductory Marketing. Now I had no background, no training, and–truth be told–no interest in marketing. But I could read and research and that course became a delight for me as I devised ways to make the whole thing […]